Stenhouse Shoal


Stenhouse Shoal (54˚20'00" 130˚56'00" W entrance to Brown Passage, SW of Melville I, W of Prince Rupert). Alexander A Stenhouse was a pioneer businessman and resident of Victoria. In 1861, according to coastal historian Capt John Walbran, he was a sheriff’s officer “in charge of various vessels which had been infringing the customs and excise laws.” Sadly, an 1869 report in the Victoria Colonist stated that he was “in a destitute state in San Francisco ... having entirely lost his...

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